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SUMMARY:Henry Cowles - How the Other Half Thinks: Human Science in the Gilded Age - NY HoS Series
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Henry Cowles\, Assistant Professor of the History of Medicine and of History\, Yale University \nHow do I know what you think—or that you think at all? This is the so-called “problem of other minds\,” a philosophical puzzle that gained new meaning in the Gilded Age. Under the star of evolution\, American practitioners of the human sciences probed a range of “other minds” for common elements. These human scientists came to agree that\, across gaps of age\, gender\, race\, class\, and even species\, minds worked by a single set of steps: the scientific method. Science\, in other words\, became a fundamental feature of all thought\, human and otherwise. Human scientists in the Gilded Age proposed “the scientific method” as a solution to the problem of other minds. This lecture\, which is part of a larger project on the rise of the human sciences in the American Gilded Age\, zooms in on urgent attempts to explain a range of mental functions in terms of the theory of evolution by natural selection. Drawing on case studies from child study\, animal psychology\, and psychiatric anthropology\, I will track the use of evolutionary theory as both a justification of such comparative studies and as a tool for comprehending the contents of other minds. Each case study illuminates a different trajectory by which a theory of developmental life was repurposed in the scientific study of mental lives imagined as far different from the scientists’ own. \nThis event is free and open to the public.\nThis event is part of the New York History of Science Lecture Series. \nSponsoring Organizations:\nNew York University\nGallatin School of Individualized Study\nColumbia University in the City of New York\nCity University of New York\nThe New York Academy of Sciences\nThe New York Academy of Medicine
URL:https://blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/scisoc/cssevent/henry-cowles-how-the-other-half-thinks-human-science-in-the-gilded-age-ny-hos-series/
LOCATION:NYU Gallatin\, 1 Washington Place\, Room 801\, New York\, NY\, 10003
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